[U-Boot] [PATCH] printenv show garbage on out-of-memory conditions
Maxime Larocque
maxmtl2002 at yahoo.ca
Fri Sep 28 17:00:13 CEST 2012
Hello,
In common/cmd_nvedit.c, en env_print(), the wrong type is used for len. hexport_r() returns -1 on error (like OOM), which is converted to 0xffffffff when put in an unsigned. Said value is obviously bigger then 0, and as a result an uninitialized string is then displayed. Other usages of hexport_r() in the code correctly uses ssize_t to keep its return value.
Does not seem to be critical, but it is misleading when debugging a OOM error...
I have added a printf to display something in case of error; I'll leave it to the committer to keep it or remove it.
Found in U-Boot 2011.12, but still present in current git.
Maxime Larocque
Signed-off-by: Maxime Larocque <maxmtl2002 at yahoo.ca>
--- common/cmd_nvedit.c
+++ common/cmd_nvedit.c
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
static int env_print(char *name)
{
char *res = NULL;
- size_t len;
+ ssize_t len;
if (name) { /* print a single name */
ENTRY e, *ep;
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@
free(res);
return len;
}
+ else {
+ printf("## Error: cannot export environment\n");
+ }
/* should never happen */
return 0;
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